Looks like we might get more than the Galaxy S5 from Samsung in the coming weeks. The Korean electronics giant plans to release multiple versions of its flagship smartphone, just like it did with the Galaxy S4, according to a couple Asian sites, earlier noted by BGR. Related stories: Samsung Galaxy S5 likely at Feb. …

Wearables: Everybody in the tech world is talking about them, but no one has quite nailed it — yet. The category, which includes everything from smart glasses that record video to watches that answer phone calls, is generating some of the biggest buzz in the tech industry, and for good reason. Wearables are a long way from overtaking smartphones, but …

Samsung execs are probably dancing a little jig right about now. Google late Wednesday confirmed that it’s selling Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, or less than a quarter of what it paid for the handset vendor in 2011. Motorola has brought nothing but troubles (and a lot of patents) to Google, with the company steadily …

Things are about to get tougher for Apple. Google late Wednesday made an unexpected announcement that it’s selling Motorola Mobility to Chinese PC giant Lenovo for $2.91 billion, or less than a quarter of what it paid for the handset vendor just a couple of years ago. During the years Google owned it, Motorola lost money and market share, and …

If a recent report from Recode is correct, Samsung has caved to pressure from Google to make Android a little more pure. The publication said the two companies started forming agreements at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month “that would bring Samsung’s view of Android in line with Google’s own.” That means Samsung will consider changing or getting rid …

Google and Samsung on Sunday unveiled a broad, long-term cross-licensing deal that will cover their existing patents as well as those filed over the next 10 years. The two companies provided essentially no details about the terms of the deal or what patents and technologies its covers, only saying that it’s “mutually beneficial.” However, they did take veiled shots at …

Competition’s catching up to Samsung, and it’s only going to get worse. Early Friday Korea-time, the electronics giant reported its first quarterly operating profit decline in two years. Perhaps most troubling was the slowdown in its mobile business, with its fourth-quarter operating profit in IT and mobile communications dropping 18 percent sequentially and shipments falling “slightly.” Samsung also warned that …

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich shows off the company’s new Edison product. James Martin/CNET Intel’s wearables demo at the Consumers Electronics Show generated a lot of buzz, but it turns out that not all devices had “Intel Inside.” The Santa Clara, Calif., semiconductor giant used ARM-based chips for some of the demos, the company confirmed, though it declined to specify which …

When looking at the plethora of wearable devices unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, other companies certainly followed that principle. A walk around the show floor saw startups such as Martian and Pebble and major players such as LG and Sony introduce new wearable gadgets. And in most cases, they offered either a single benefit, such as …

Editors’ note (February 21, 2014): This story was published in December 2013, but it remains relevant on the eve of Mobile World Congress 2014, where Samsung is expected to announce an update to last year’s Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Samsung won the race to put a stake in the wearable market in 2013. Next year, it will have to win the …